Chapter 3: Touching a base

The 3rd Battalion Department, the instructor Fang Zheng, walked around uneasy. The battalion commander took the soldiers to attack the Liujiaji stronghold. He did not agree with it. Now he regrets the more he thinks about it. He blamed him for not stopping the battalion commander and others firmly. The 12 soldiers went to attack a Japanese stronghold. If the battalion commander made a mistake, how could he explain to the regiment commander?

Just as Fang Zheng was full of annoyance, the correspondent ran over with excitement and said happily: "Instructor, battalion commander and others are back, and they have brought back a lot of spoils." The latest updates are all available in the search.

"The battalion commander has returned and has brought back a lot of spoils." Instructor Fang happened to come back to his senses for a long time, and then the anxious team correspondent said, "Go, go quickly, take me to see the battalion commander and others."

Seeing the soldiers returning to the base safely and bringing back so many spoils, other soldiers were surprised at first, and then they all surrounded them to see the spoils. They saw brand new rifles, boxes of bullets and grenades, and especially when they saw crooked machine guns and heavy machine guns, everyone looked at the special forces team members with admiration, and smiles appeared on their faces.

Seeing such good equipment, the first company commander Wang Haiyang said to Zhang Yunfei with a flattering smile, "Battery Commander, I like machine guns the most. Let's share these machine guns with our company."

Before Zhang Yunfei could answer, the second company commander Chen Erwa and the third company commander Qian Long hurriedly said: "Wang Haiyang, you think beautifully."

Seeing the three company commanders starting to compete for equipment, Zhang Yunfei said: "Don't argue, everyone, have a meeting soon, I have something to say."

Seeing that his battalion commander said that the meeting was about to be held, everyone immediately stopped arguing and hurriedly walked towards the battalion meeting room.

In the conference room, Zhang Yunfei looked at everyone and said, "Today we took down the Liujia Town stronghold. A total of more than 30 Type 38 rifles, 3 crooked machine guns, one Type 92 heavy machine gun, more than 5,000 bullets, two boxes of grenades, and a radio station, more than 200 pieces of ocean, 3 gold bars, and several food and clothing. Among these things, the Type 38 rifles and the crooked machine gun were divided equally. The Type 92 heavy machine gun was given to the first company first, and then distributed to the second and third companies after seizure. You have no objection."

"No objection" the three company commanders said in unison.

Zhang Yunfei looked at Fang Zheng again and said, "Instructor, our army soldiers are too hard. Except for the part we seized in the future, the rest of the money we seized is used to buy food, clothing and other daily necessities."

"Okay, the battalion commander is fine, the soldiers are too hard." Fang Zheng said happily.

"Instructor, I want you to be responsible for the life and logistics of the troops. The oceans and gold bars seized today are placed there. The weather is getting colder and colder. You will send someone to buy some cotton and cotton cloth tomorrow and mobilize women from several nearby villages to make clothes and shoes for the soldiers. You will arrange to remove and re-dye the clothes seized from the Japanese today to make our Eighth Route Army uniforms. In order to facilitate future management, you'd better set up a quilt factory; and wait and buy a big fat pig from the people. On the one hand, we will improve the lives of the soldiers, and on the other hand, we will celebrate."

"Okay, I'll make arrangements later." Fang Zheng said.

In the middle of the night, at the Third Battalion, five large marching pots were lined up, and the orange flames happily licked the bottom of the pot. The water in the pot was churning up and down, and the aroma of the stewed meat floated far away. The soldiers lined up in an orderly line and each of them assigned a bowl of stewed meat from the cooking squad, which made them enjoyable.

The next day, the instructor Fang Zheng found dozens of women from nearby villages to make cotton coats and pants. Seeing that there were a large number of people, Zhang Yunfei specially found a spacious small courtyard specially used for making clothes and shoes, and provided two meals to the women who came to help with the work at noon and evening.

In addition, a few smart soldiers were sent to the county town with the seized gold bars and the ocean, and secretly purchased a batch of cotton and cotton cloth. I believe that it will not take long before the soldiers will be able to wear warm cotton coats, cotton pants and cotton shoes.

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In Xin'an County, 7 or 8 miles away from the Third Battalion, the Japanese Army Command of Xin'an County, Captain Ichiro Watanabe heard the Chief of Staff report that the Liujia Town stronghold was attacked. More than 30 warriors from the Great Japanese Imperial Army were broken together. They were so angry that they pulled out their command knife and slashed hard on the table. They said to the Chief of Staff in anger: "Did you find out who did it?"

"Your Captain, I don't know who did it yet," said the Chief of Staff.

"Check, check it out for me, who did it, let me find out who did it, it's dead."

"Hi." The Chief of Staff stood attentively and bowed his head and saluted.

"At the same time, I will strengthen the mobilization of the surrounding villages."

"Hi." The Chief of Staff stood attentively and bowed his head and saluted.

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In the following days, Zhang Yunfei strengthened the training of the troops, whether it was shooting, bayonets or tactical training, personally participated in the demonstration, and corrected the wrong things of the soldiers in a timely manner. Even the military supervisors above the platoon strengthened their military theory study and became a teacher himself.

As for the special forces, it mainly practices by itself. Zhang Yunfei only spends two or three hours a day to guide the training of the special forces. Even so, the special forces' tactics and skills level have been significantly improved.

The quilt factory was also established, and several people were drawn from non-combatants to serve as managers. Now the quilt factory has established several small workshops, including spinning workshops, responsible for spinning cotton into spindles; there is a weaving workshop, responsible for weaving cotton yarn into cloth; there is also a finished workshop, responsible for making clothes, cotton shoes and quilts.

Originally, I planned to recruit only dozens of women, but in several nearby villages, I heard that they were making clothes for the Eighth Route Army, all actively signed up and finally recruited hundreds of people.

These women were also very enthusiastic about their work and could make dozens of clothes every day. Not long after, the soldiers put on brand new cotton coats and warm cotton shoes.

In terms of food, Zhang Yunfei bought all the oceans into food. The soldiers could eat enough for three meals a day and occasionally had a meal of meat. However, this way of eating made the instructor Fang Zheng both happy and heartbroken. What was happy was that as the food improved, the soldiers' physique became better and better. The faces with the past were covered in vegetables gradually became rosy. What was heartbroken was that this way, the oceans and gold bars seized last time were almost spent.

With food and clothing, although the weapons were still lacking, Zhang Yunfei decided to expand his troops. He knew very well that the Eighth Route Army's team developed very quickly. From the development of three divisions in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the team developed to more than one million people.

With the publicity team's publicity, the recruitment work went smoothly. Young people from hundreds of miles nearby actively participated in the Eighth Route Army. In just a few days, they recruited more than 500 people. This was the result of Zhang Yunfei's special control and screening. After all, in this era, the people and the Japanese devils had deep hatred, and most of them participated in the Eighth Route Army with the purpose of avenging their dead relatives. On the other hand, the Eighth Route Army was a team of the people, and everyone was willing to participate.

When Zhang Yunfei saw the soldiers recruited, he was very satisfied. These soldiers were all selected by himself, all young and middle-aged, and there were no elderly, weak, sick and disabled. Zhang Yunfei unified these soldiers into a recruit company, and organized more than a dozen platoons to carry out training in platoon units. The recruit platoon leader was the veterans selected from each company, and he was both the platoon leader and the instructor.
Chapter completed!